Vertical and horizontal lines when printing photos - HP Photosmar

Fill an old black cartridge with hot water and scan and copy something with a lot of black on it. cleaned out my black ink clog after about 12 copies. Put new ink in and it's working fine. Oh yeah, use a syring minus needle to fill lower o-ring on back of cartridge.

The problem is in your printer set up. When you go to print, select the type of paper, size, horizontal or vertical print mode. If you do not designate photo with size and paper type; it defaults to standard 8x10 paper from the lower tray. This is all explained in your printer manual or on line at HP.com.

Black printer ink in HP Printer may fail to be recognized by the printer. Most times an error message will be sent indicating that something is wrong with the black print cartridge. Sometimes the printer may accept to print with the black ink, but the printouts may have horizontal lines and very illegible letters. In such a case a manual cleaning of the print head should be carried out. In doing the manual cleaning, one should spray Windex heavily on paper towel and wipe off the surface of the print head.

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> I bought a new printer

Take it back, and get one that does work correctly.

> VERTICAL lines ACROSS the whole photo

Hold the paper in "portrait" mode, not "landscape" mode.
Are the lines HORIZONTALLY-ACROSS the paper,
or VERTICALLY-DOWN the paper?

If those lines are WHITE and HORIZONTAL,
then some of the many ink-jets inside the print-head are *CLOGGED*.
Run a "print-head-cleaning-cycle" to try to unclog it.
Or, exercise the WARRANTY, and get it replaced.

The black ink cartridge is larger than the photo black cartridge and black is used in photos to make the darker colors. Black text takes much less ink per page.

is it printing fine from other application if yes,
then just to inform you that there is a problem in printing from HP printer with OLD ADOBE VERSIONS which has been fixed in the new versions of ADOBE

Nozzle check must perfect for perfect output. There are tranversal lines at vertical straight lines that represent same point of head micro piezo. If tranversal lines no clog at all, but vertical straight lines not perfectly straight, the result not good (like horizontal white banding). Check it? Head aligment is for vertical banding. If your result is horizontal banding, you don't need to realign head. It's caused by some residual at the output of head sprayer. So, the spray of ink not straight to paper. Try to print with photo/best photo.

you shoud test printhead,if they are ok, you choose "best photo" in printer property.

teps on how to change jet ink cartridge where do i pull on the printer.

follow the link to download the manuals.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/manualCategory?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3396080
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